The Dubliners - Banks of the Roses lyrics

On the banks of the roses, my love and I sat down And I took out me fiddle to play me love a tune In the middle of the tune, o she sighed and she said O Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me O when I was a young man, I heard my father say That he'd rather see me dead and buried in the clay Sooner than be married to any runaway By the lovely sweet banks of the roses On the banks of the roses, my love and I sat down And I took out me fiddle to play me love a tune In the middle of the tune, o she sighed and she said O Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me Well then I am no runaway and soon I'll let them know That I can take the bottle or leave it alone And her Daddy that doesn't like it He can keep his daughter home And young Johnny will go roving with another On the banks of the roses, my love and I sat down And I took out me fiddle to play me love a tune In the middle of the tune, o she sighed and she said O Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me And when I get married, t'will be in the month of May When the leaves they are green and the meadows they are gay And Me and me true love can sit and sport and play On the lovely sweet banks of the roses On the banks of the roses, my love and I sat down And I took out me fiddle to play me love a tune In the middle of the tune, o she sighed and she said O Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me